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  1. Muzykalʹnye obrazy i lejtmotivy
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Baltijskie sezony, Sankt-Peterburg

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  2. One last song
    conversations on life, death, and music
    Author: Ayers, Mike
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Abrams, New York, NY

    "A collection of the songs that have moved us, changed us, or amplified our lives. . .Highlights some of the most emotionally resonant music ever created, in the words of more than thirty musical legends and up-and-comers. Weaving together their... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "A collection of the songs that have moved us, changed us, or amplified our lives. . .Highlights some of the most emotionally resonant music ever created, in the words of more than thirty musical legends and up-and-comers. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes, these essays encourage us to examine the soundtracks of our own experiences and consider how integral music is to our personal narratives"--Back cover

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: James, Jim
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781419738203
    Subjects: Unterhaltungsmusik; Tod <Motiv>; Song; Tod
    Other subjects: Music / Social aspects; Death / Songs and music; Songs; Songs / History; Musicians / Biography; Death; Music / Social aspects; Musicians; Songs; Biographies; History; Songs and music
    Scope: 191 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. Popular music autobiography
    the revolution in life-writing by 1960s' musicians and their descendants
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781501355837
    RVK Categories: EC 7417
    Subjects: Popmusiker; Autobiografie
    Other subjects: Musicians / Biography / History and criticism; Music and literature; Biography as a literary form; Autobiography; Popular music / History and criticism; Nineteen sixties; Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; Music and literature; Musicians / Biography; Nineteen sixties; Popular music; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 256 Seiten
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    Introduction. Generation Audio-Biography -- Disenabling Fame : Rock 'n' Recovery Autobiographies and Disability Narrative -- "A Cellarful of Boys" : The Swinging Sixties, Gay Managers, and the Other Beatle -- Performative Identity : Cosey Fanni Tutti, Brett Anderson, Moby -- Performative Identity : Patti Smith, David Wojnarowicz -- The Invention of Bob Dylan and the Archival Autograph -- Conclusion

  4. Popular music autobiography
    the revolution in life-writing by 1960s' musicians and their descendants
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    "The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "The 1960s saw the nexus of the revolution in popular music by a post-war generation amid demographic upheavals and seismic shifts in technology. Over the past two decades, musicians associated with this period have produced a large amount of important autobiographical writing. This book situates these works -- in the forms of formal autobiographies and memoirs, auto-fiction, songs, and self-fashioned museum exhibitions -- within the context of the recent expansion of interest in autobiography, disability, and celebrity studies. It argues that these writings express anxiety over musical originality and authenticity, and seeks to dispel their writers' celebrity status and particularly the association with a lack of seriousness. These works often constitute a meditation on the nature of postmodern fame within a celebrity-obsessed culture, and paradoxically they aim to regain the private self in a public forum"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781501355837
    RVK Categories: EC 7417
    Subjects: Popmusiker; Autobiografie
    Other subjects: Musicians / Biography / History and criticism; Music and literature; Biography as a literary form; Autobiography; Popular music / History and criticism; Nineteen sixties; Autobiography; Biography as a literary form; Music and literature; Musicians / Biography; Nineteen sixties; Popular music; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 256 Seiten
    Notes:

    Introduction. Generation Audio-Biography -- Disenabling Fame : Rock 'n' Recovery Autobiographies and Disability Narrative -- "A Cellarful of Boys" : The Swinging Sixties, Gay Managers, and the Other Beatle -- Performative Identity : Cosey Fanni Tutti, Brett Anderson, Moby -- Performative Identity : Patti Smith, David Wojnarowicz -- The Invention of Bob Dylan and the Archival Autograph -- Conclusion